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VOLUME VII. _HUNTSVILLE, ALA., SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1886. NUMBER32.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
! News from Everywhere.
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! _ priRFivr PEEL, hitherto a Tory, will
JfJSwone candidate in the coming
English election.___
a „;e,4 Ottawa that orders re
JJttoglhe enforcement of the fisheries
treaty have been^canceled^
T„BE are so many bills before the
Jintforhis signature that many of
Jem will become law before he can ex
amine them.__
- r, rr-FT avd’s attention has
teeJcaUed to the disgraceful condition of
fhe American Soldiers’ cemetery in the
Citv of Mexico. _
ft is expected that a call for the re
demotion of $4,000,000 three per cent, bonds
ill! be issued from the Treasury Depart
ment in a few days. ___
Various w^hy Orangemen in the
v&rth of Ireland are opening their grounds
for drilling purposes, by this means avoid
inz police interference.
General F. M. Drake, of Centerville,
la lias given $12,500 toward the establish
ment of a memorial professorship in Drake
University at Des Moines.
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The street gossips of Washington are
busy reconstructing President Cleveland’s
Cabinet. The President has not been
beard from on the subject.
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If the French Senate passes the Expul
sion bill M. Waddington will resign the
ambassadorship at London, and other
French ambassadors will do likewise.
Ernest David, the biographer of Bach
and Handel, is dead. He leaves complete
manuscript lives of Mendelssohn and
Schumann, which will be published short
ly.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher saJled for
Europe on the steamship Etruria on the
19th, accompanied by his wife. He will
probably return the latter part of Septem
ber.
The British Government contemplate
placing an agent at New York with a
view to conducting a parcels post be
tween Great Britain and the United
States.
Additional returns from the Nova
Scotia elections show that the government
will have the support of between twenty
eight and thirty members out of <4 House
umbering thirty-eight.
The ceremony of conferring the -cardi
nal's hat on Archbishop Gibbons will take
place in the Baltimore cathedral on the
[ 30th, which will be the twenty-fifth an
niversary of the priesthood of the prelate.
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A telegram from Saigon says: Two
French officers have been killed with pois
oned arrows at Thankoa, and there have
been fresh massacres of Christians in
Anaru. The rebels have burned some vil
lages near Tourane.
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1’HK Greek Government has sent a note
to Turkey complaining of the manner in
which she has permitted the Greek pris
oners in her custody to be treated, and re
minding Turkey that such conduct can
tot be easily forgotten.
The history of the Helots robber band
of Texas shows it to have been one of the
" rst gangs of desperadoes the State ever
n "-aid that it is now broken up is due
* - act that two of the members be
oa® rivals for the love of a woman.
Orange Grand Lodge of Ireland has
1 ' a manifesto protesting against “the
,-ravnl oftbe loyal minority of Ireland
j, 1 bidding of Mr. Gladstone and Mr.
T”11 in the interests of rebels, outrage
- nS«s and other violators of the laws.”
bR"M recent information coming from
[ .' as very near tbe President, there
0 doubt that Lieutenant
th?'' ?tei! h;s Promotion to Captain of
fli ' 's confirmed, will he appoint
era] aJ°‘ aUl1 Assistant Adjntant-Geu
tlp i»,'\V',‘‘' !:‘ i tality is reported among
, ’ PS at Assouan. One hun
bave died'w'i'th-* 0Lthe Dorsefc regiment
Of*- l '“thin tbe past two months.
Cv“? huudre'1 invalids on their way to
rout/* U droPPed dead from heat en
Tjjf ®
t • rnEre? ’’0lante-Tyrant match was
*ra»s,!I 'U Louis according to pro
01 Tyran-n / ? I8th- 'Ir- Haggin. owner
for;,';.: ''-'luring his horse lame and
lanf r"'' to ' olante. The ten thou
’p 6 1>resenC were very much dis
A- Bayard, son of the Sec
liur’htcr f i! "' and Miss Ora Deakins,
rie'i»*the°r F- Deakins, were mar
frt p„ ,, ' ‘ncc of the bride’s parents,
^s17th n •'!1, Mdo °n the evening of
'be groom-t0 the recent deaths in
m22 m,ly the weddiag was a j
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the act R F ‘ L °f New York has sign
iltlPri8oniaennieif‘'imf *he la,v regarding
Months is t, i ?' deb.t- Hereafter, six
°n arrests in ■ °f imprisonment
theln C,V , act'Jns and tbe opera
^Prisonersj,.?,,6®86'' within liv« day®
T°rk- »nd el.- J °W Street jail, New
Carcerat«d k.,":l*1>’"ho have been in
- °nd si* months.
JjPterin Wi?? ^rs‘ Hndicott gave a
C‘6Vel&nd 0n 0f the President and Mrs.
°> guestV4!Ve^ng0fthenth- The
,,hlt»ey, p 6re Secretary and Mrs.
!llas’Genera T!,te?Ueneral aad Mrs.
?r&i hod^rs Mrs- Sheridan, Ad,
, fcPr°tem. o£ttTrSherman’ Fresi
carlisie Senate, Speaker and
g filter of the'R?Bradley» Miss West,
‘ £udicott, jr Minister; Mr. W.
' r''ftQd Miss Endicott.
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
A. E. Morse, cashier of the First Na
tional Bank of Stevens Point, Wis., was
shot and killed by W. W. Hazeltine on the
19th.
Speaker Carlisle’s presidential boom
is receiving the assistance of Kentucky
men in Congress.
The executive committee of the Brook
lyn (N. Y.) branch of the Irish parlia
mentary fund forwarded $5,000 to the Par
nell fund in England on the 19th.
At Avoca, la., on the 20th William Far
rell killed a watchman named D. Heller
and then blew his own brains out.
The injurious effects of wholesale hand
shaking at the White House is pointed out
by a Washington lady.
Bishop McQuaid of Rochester, N. Y.,
in contributing one hundred dollars to the
Irish parliamentary fund, writes a letter
urging agitation until Ireland’s rights are
conceded.
The Parnellities appointed to take
charge of the Irish vote in Great Britain
are actively preparing for work.
A deputation of Ulster Protestant cler
gymen and magistrates will address pub
lic meetings at London in favor of home
rule.
Four miners, convicted of the murder of
Superintendent Watren at Decazeville,
were sentenced on the 19th to terms of
from five to eight years penal servitude.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in an ad
dress to the electors of Bristol, said the
Government scheme would be dishonora
ble to Great Britain and disastrous to Ire
land.
Mr. Gladstone address ed another
large and enthusiastic meeting at Edin
burg on the 21st.
Cardinal Taschereau was presented
on the 21st with an address and a purse of
53,574 by the people of Quebec.
The Detroit base ball club turned the ta
bles on the Chicagos on the 2lst, and
came within one of shutting the “record
breakers” out. The score stood 4 to 1 in
favor of Detroit.
The English yacht Galatea will sail for
New York on the 2Gth to compete for the
America’s cup.
A demand has been presented in the
Spanish Congress for the concession of
home rule to Cuba.
Benjamin Moran, for many years sec
retary of the American Legation in Lon
don, and afterward Minister resident in
Portugal, is dead.
The ind^tments against Mrs. Molloy at
Springfield, Mo., growing out of the Gra
ham murder, have been quashed, but she
was held on bail until new indictments
can be found.
Ov . ' ’ —->ons v ere pois
oned by something eaien at a -man
festival at Petersville, N. J., and an ex
amination of the food partaken of reveal
ed the fact that the meat from which sand
wiches had been imade wasbadly impreg
nated with poison, absorbed from the
cans in which it was packed.
During a thunderstorm at Crete, Neb.,
on the 21st, Martin Collins and Frank Po
lansky were instantly killed by lightning
while digging a well. Collins was badly
disfigured, being burned in some spots to
a crisp. The back of his head was torn
off.
Hon. L. A. Bruner, Speaker pro tem. of
the Sixty-sixth General Assembly of Ohio,
and editor of the Seneca Advertiser, died
at Tiffin, O., on the 21st, of heart disease,
aged sixty years.
The London Daily Telegraph says Abbe
Liszt is fil at Weimar. His physicians fear
his condition is hopeless.
The Senate has ratified an extraction
treaty with Japan and one for the resur
vey of the boundary line between the
United States and Mexico.
The Treasury Department issued a call
on the 21st for $4,000,000 three-per-cent,
bonds for redemption.
Spain contemplates the construction of
a number of speedy and powerful cruisers.
The woman who played the recent en
gagement in St. Louis with Orth Stein,
the journalistic and general fraud, has
shown up in Indianapolis, and claims
that Stein swindled her badly, robbing
her of everything she had of value.
Mrs. Clara Richardson, of Memphis,
Tenn., wife of J. H. Richardson, a mer
chant there, was removed from the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, to Bellevue Hos
pital on the 21st. as she had shown unmis
takable signs of madness. She is thirty
five years old and very handsome.
Parsons, the Chicago Anarchist, who
has been hi ling since the night of the
Hay market riot, walked into court there
on the 21st, in company of his attorneys,
and surrendered himself.
Mrs. Mackenzie, who was shot by her
husband, the American Vice-Consul at
Dublin, is recovering.
The New England Institute Fair build
ing at Boston was destroyed by fire on the
21st, and twelve persons are known to
have been burned to death. Eight charred
bodies were recovered. The building cost
$600,000.
Rev. Waldo Messaras, of the North
western Independent Presbyterian Church
of Philadelphia, is the central figure of a
scandal that eclipses the Downs case.
Mr. Parnell is to stump England and
Scotland to allay, if possible, the religious
excitement raised over the prospect of
home-rule in Ireland.
A severe storm struck the Austrian
capital and vicinity cn the 21st, destroy
ing bridges, roads, railways and uproot
ing hundreds of trees in Riugstrask park.
The President sent to Congress on the
21st fifteen veto messages. Thirteen tff
the vetoed measures are private pension
bills; the others provide lor public build
ings at Sioux City, la., and Zanesville, O.
A meeting of a thousand people was
held at Zurich, Switzerland, on the 21st,
to protest against the Government's ac
tion against strikers. A red flag was un
furled at the meeting, but the police pre
served order.
A plot for a general escape of the in
mates of the Hamilton County (0.) jail,
was discovered on the 21st. Six steel saws, j
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an iron saw-frame, a brass key and other
tools were found in one of the prisoners’
cells, and it is stated that friends of the
prisoners were to assist them in scaling
the walls by ropes, etc., and to resist the
guard, if necessary.
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XLIXTH CONGRESS,
In the Senate on the lntii a memorial from
Massachusetts on the fisheries question was
received. The Senate went into executive
aession, and when the doors opened, the
bill repealing the Pre-emption and oth»i
land laws was taken up, but was laid aside,
and the Invalid Pension bill was
passed. The Military Academy bill
was passed, and tne Senate again
took up the Land Law Repeal bill and it
was debated during the remainder ot the
session.In the House, alter disposing of
some minor business, the Legislative Appro
priation bill was taken up and, after con
sideration in committee of the whole, re
ported to the House and passed.
_,In the Senate on the 17th, a number of bills
on the calendar was passed, most of them of
no general interest or especial Importance.
'J he most notable were: A bill for the ap
pointment ot an assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, Mr. Frye’s bill
for a congress of American" Nations
and several public building biiis.in the
House the first business oljimportance was a
motion by Mr. Mori ison to taxe up the Tariff
bill. This the House refused to do by a vote
of 140 yeas to 1S7 nays. Mr. Morrison gave
notice that he would renew the motion on
the 2;d. The House then went into commit
tee of the whole on the Naval Appropiation
bill.
In the Senate on the 18th, after some
wrangling over the order of business, the
Vance bill, repealing tlm Civil-Service act,
was Indefinitely postponed. Resolutions
calling on the Postmaster-General for in
formation concerning postmasters’ salaries,
were agreed to after some debate, and the
Senate took up the calendar. The Fitz-John
Porter bill was made a speciul order tor the
‘.’4th. Several bills passed, among them
one reducing the price of post
ofltce money-oiders; also, the Frye bill for
payment tor can ying foreign mails; also,
Mr. Logan's army bill.In tlie House the
Consular and Diplomatic bill was reported
from the conference cemmlttee with some of
the Sennte amendments lion-concurred in.
A resolution for final adjournment on July
a was referred to the ways and means com
mittee. Tue naval bill was considered iu
committee of the whole during the remain
der of the session.
The Senate was not In session on the 19th
.In the House a bill was passed author-.
izing the construction of a bridge across the
Mississippi at Dubuque, la. .\ message from
the President was received announcing
his approval of the Shipping • bill,
but pointing out defects which
called for remedial legislation. The
Naval Appropriation bill was consid
ered In committee of the whole, and a light
occurred over the item making appropria
tion for the erection of the observatory
building at Washington, but the clause was
finally allowed to stand.
In the '.Senate on the fist a bill giving
Dearborn park to the cityof Chicago passed;
also a bill removing the political disabilities
of J. G. Flourney, of Mississippi. A resolu
tion was agreed to calling for information
on tunil frauds. The irmy A’nnrotiria
tion bill was reported, the
House non concurring In the Senate
amendments The senate insisted on its
amendments andl a {conference committee
was appointed The Diplomatic bill look
the same course. The biil repealing the
land laws was tiien taken up and discussed.
.In the House the Senate amend
ments to the Pension bill
were non-concurred In and a con
ference committee was appointed. The
Naval bill was passed. Under tlie call of
States many ‘bills and resolutions were in
troduced, tlie most notable being a resolu
tion by Mr. Glover (Mo.) for investigation of
R. D. Lancaster. The Sundry Civil Appro
priations bill was then taken up in commit
tee of the witole and discussed the rest of the
day.
LATE NEWS ITEMS*
Teiri Is no material change In ex
Frasldent Arthur’s condition, and his con
valescence is progressing satisfactorily.
Hobart Pabha (the Hon. Charles Au
gustus Hobart), Marshal of the Turkish
Empire, is dead.
At Modeste, Cal., 01 the 19th, five do
st! oyed 3000 acres of wheat. Loss $30,000,
with but little insurance.
The rainfall at Alexandria, La., for the
cwenty-four hours ending at 1 o’clock on
the 17th was 22 27-100 inches.
The colored people of Arkansas and
Texas for miles around congregated at
Texarkana, Ark., on the 19th, and cele
brated Emancipation Day.
Some fifty hands broke ground on the
Kansas City railroad at Birmingham,
Ala., on the 19th.
The Brooklyn branch of the Irish Par
liamentary fund on the 19th forwarded
£5,000 to the treasurer of the Parnell fund
in Ireland.
An effort is being made by the Standard
Oil Company to secure control of the Cen
tral railroad of Georgia.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher sailed for
Europe on the 19th. He was accompanied
by his wife.
Grace Brewer, colored, graduated alone
on the 19th from the Vincennes, Ind., high
school, her eight Caucasian classmaits
forfeiting their uisplomas rather than ap
pear on social equality with a negress.
John D. Hopper was arrested at Phil
adelphia, on the 19th charged with the em
bezzlement of $27,0H0 belonging to tne
firm of Joel J. Eaily & Co., by whom he
was employed as cashier.
At Stevens Point, Wis., on the 19th, tbree
shots were fired with fatal effe- ’.by W. W.
Hazletine at A. E. More, cashier of the
First National Bank.
A terrific wind and rain storm passed
over parts of the interior of Texas on the
20th, doing great damage to town property
and crops. The loss in Parks county is
placed at $100,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reed, of Jackson,
Mich., affected with internal cancer, with
the exception of two spoonfuls of port
wine each day, has taken no nourishment
in ninety-one days.
The New England Institute Fair build
ing at Boston was burned on the 20th.
Loss $500,000.
A carload of Alabama manufactured
cotton goods passed through Vicksburg on
the 20th en route to Portland, Oregon.
The heaviest rain known for years vis
ited Aberdeen, Miss., on the 2uth. The
rainfall measured 61* inches.
The Senate has ratified an extradition
treaty with Japan and one for the re-sor
vey of the boundary line between tu°
United States and M *>>".
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SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
—
Robert Robinson, aged sixteen, of
W adosboro, S. C., died a few days since
of hydrophobia, after twenty-four hours’
suffering. He was bitten on the left arm
I by a mad dog two years ago, and a few
days before his death was stung by bees
; on the same arm.
; It has been discovered in the Georgia
1 Comptroller’s office that persons are on
the < i 11s fraudulently drawing allowances
uriu'i1 the maimed Confederate soldier
act. A case recently exposed is that of
David Gann, one-legged, who was made
engineer at the State Capitol some years
ago at seventy-five dollars per month,
claiming to be a Confederate. He was
recently discharged for neglect of his
work, and has been proven to be a fraud,
having lost his leg in 18bC in a railroad
accident.
George W. Milkman, arrested in Provi
dence, R. I., recently by Detective Porter,
of Nashville, Tenn., was taken to Nash
ville a few days since and lodged in jail to
await trial for receiving money and goods
under false pretenses. Milkman, who is a
sign painter, located in Nashville several
months ago, and after securing money,
clothing and jewelry valued at six hun
dred dollars, left the city. He was indict
ed and was returned on a requisition.
Judge Allen of the Nashville (Tenn.)
Criminal Court was hanged in effigy in
the Court-house in Murfreesboro a few
nights ago. It is thought by some that
the act was committed in condemnation of
the action of Judge Allen in having At
torney-General Washington arrested for
alleged contempt of his court. Others be
lieve it was due to the fact that Judge
Allen had announced himself as an inde
pendent candidate for re-election against
the convention nominee, who resides in
Murfreesboro.
Louisville (Ky.) street fakirs sell what
they are pleased to call sneezeless snuff.
A colored woman edits an influential
paper published in Petersburg, Va.
Peach trees thirty-two years old still
bear profusely at Levyville, Ga.
Two distinct streams jet from an arte
sian well at All.any, Ga.
One trucker in Alachua County, Fla.,
recently got twenty-five cents from New
York as the total returns for six crates of
beans.
Two ruon in Tallapoosa County, Ala.,
cut each other’s throats and died simul
taneously recently during a political quar
rel.
Atlorney-General Miller of Mississippi
has brought suit against tlie penitentiary
lessee for $40.<H!0 due for 1885.
A Tallahassee (Fla.) merchant, who be
g»a ! ; mess over three years ago, has not
been absent from his store a single day,
often having his mid-day meal sent to
him.
On the Waller farm, near Newmarket,
Va., a few days ago, two young colored
girls nearly beat to death an aged white
man and his sister, and fled with $350 in
money.
Two women, aged one hundred and four
and seventy-seven years respectively,
were recently arrested at Louisville, Ky.,
for li hting. The eldest one held her own
for some time, but the youth of the other
finally triumphed and one hundred and
four was knocked out.
A beer war is going on at Rome, Ga.,
and one retailer advertises it at one cent
a glass. Most consumers, however, have
for some time been buying it by the keg,
owning to the low rates prevailing.
An incendiary fired the grain, hay and
salt stores of M. B. Pitcher & Bro., at
Nashville, Teun., a few mornings since,
and the entire stock and bv.Mings were
damaged to such an extent that they are
worthless. Loss on the buibMng, $6,000;
on stock, $8,000. Insurance on building,
$4,000; on sto-k. $5,000.
A Louisville (Ky.) lady say* that mil
liners are the sharpest dealer* on earth,
and suit their prices to their customers’
poc-ketbooks. She knows, for. after trying
vainly a few days since to tTly a bonnet
for less than the twenty-five dollars asked,
she went home and described the bonnet
to her servant, who went to the shop and
bought it for twelve dollars.
Wright F. Darling was arc?: ted in Mer
idian a few days since, on Mb charge of ;
stealing two registered letters from the i
post-office. Darling was the ’riend of one j
of the clerks in the office, an4 by means of j
this friendship he secured admission be- j
hind the counter, from whence, it is al- ,
Ieged. he purloined the letteix.
A meeting presided over bv General Don :
Carlos Buell was held at Louisville, Ky., !
a few nights ago to devise plans for the j
erection of a monument in memory of the j
late distinguished Federal soldier and cit
izen. General Lovell H. Rousseau. Promi
nent Union and ex-Confederate soldiers
were present, and many speeches of j
eulogy were made. General W. H. Jack
son pledged his ex-Confederates to con- 1
tribute to so good a cause in honor of such •
a patriot. Committees were appointed to
raise the necessary subscriptions for n ,
handsome monument.
A terrible tragedy was committed in
Lenoir County, N. C., a few days ago.
Ann McDonald, wife of William McDon
ald. and Jane Dawson, the wife of Thomas
Dawson, had been intimate friends, but,
while discussing some family matters, be
came involved in an angry quarrel, and
; abusive words follow 'd. The husbands
were present at the time and took sides
with their wives. Finally the two
men became engaged in a fight, during
which McDonald shot and killed Dawson.
The murderer has been arrested and com
mitted for trial.
A queer reptile was killed one day recent
j iv near Amerieus, Ga. It was something
i like an eel. being four feet and one inch
1 long, and ha4 four small legs. The reptile
i had pretty good-sized teeth and was ready
to defend itself, hieing viciously at every
thing that touched it. It was about four
I or five inches in circumfereuce, and was
: devoid of fins of any kind, although it b
! jonged to the water.
PARSONS SURRENDERS.
rhe Mach-Wanted Chicago Anarchist
Marches Into Court in Company of His
Attorney and Surrenders, Successfully
Eluding the Police Up to the Very Bar of
the Court—He Is Discreetly Mum as to
His Hiding Place.
Chicago, June 22.—During the trial of
the Anarchists yesterday afternoon A. R.
Parsons, the mnch-sought-for dynamiter,
amazed everybody by marching into the
court-room beside Lawyer Black, cmef
counsel for the Anarchists. Captain
Black introduced him to the court as one
of the defendants in the case at bar, and
asked that he be arraigned.
“Parsons,” said Lawyer Black, “has
not at any time been over one hundred
miles from the city, yet ail the two hun
dred officers looking for him would
never have unearthed him. He
was not brought forward be
fore simply because the methods
of the Chicago police are brutal and
utterly above and regardless of the law.
I proposed to have my client treated
legally and not bullyragged and tortured
as prisoners are not even in Russia.”
After the flutter following Ins entrance
was over, Parsons was formally ar
raigned. This took but a few minutes,
the prisoner pleading not guilty. He
then took his seat and the examination
of the jurors was proceeded with.
After the adjournment of Court Par
sons was interviewed by dozens of re
porters. while standing in the cage of the
county jail, but all efforts to learn from
him where he had been coucealed during
the past two months proved fruitless.
Parsons was asked if he had been indoors
all the time.
“Does that look like it?” asked the
prisoner, as he held out a hand browned
with sun and with; “I’ve been outdoors
fishing and gathering clover.”
“He's been away on his summer vaca
tion,” suggested Mrs. Parsons, who was
standing near.
“I see you wear the Knights of Labor
badge,” said another interviewer. “Did
the Knights of Labor help you in your
concealment?”
Parsons did not offer any answer what
ever to that question, but in response to
other inquiries as co why he had returned
to stand trial on a question of such mo
ment, he said he came back to share the
fate of his fellows, and because he want
ed to “establish and uphold the truth and
the rights of oppressed labor of the
whole world.”
Captain Black, the prisoners counsel,
said that Parsons had been in the hands
of his friends out of the city and out of
the State.
“While two hundred detectives were
scouring Texas, Arkansas and Kansas
Mr Parsons • as ■■aughing at atm 1,400
miiesfaway. * wCnc 'eii w no he has
been, nor whom he has been with;
neither will he He came back, arriving
at seven o’clock this morning, and has
been enjoying the society of his family all
day up to two o’clock, when he took an
open carriage and drove to the door of
this building. He passed policemen and
detectives on the way, and coining into
the building passed w'ithin two feet of
the detectives stationed at the doors.
Place what valuation you please on the
police.”
FAT PICKING.
A Priest on a Salary of Six Hundred Dol
lars Leaves a Fortune of a Half-Million—
The Church Claims it as Hers.
Lowell, Mass., June 21.—Father Peter
Crudden, who was pastor of St. Peter’s
Catholic Church in this city from 1846 to
February, 1885, when he died, left the
snug fortune of §500,000. IIis sister,
Margaret Crudden, about lifty-live years
old, inherited all of this, with the excep
tion of real estate in Ireland worth about
§25,000, which was given to other
brothers and sisters who lived there.
When the will was made public about a
year ago it was understood that Arch
bishop Williams, of Boston, would enter
suit against the executrix and favorite in
the will, Miss Margaret Crudden, but
until a few days ago nothing was done.
An investigation has been in progress
for about six months by the representa
tives of the archbishop, George F. and
Daniel S. Richardson, which lias re
sulted in the estate of Miss Crudden in
this city and a neighboring town being
attached. It was all quietly done, with
the view' that a settlement might be made
before Miss Crudden took her departure
for Ireland to make it her permanent resi
dence. One of the lawyers said to your
correspondent yesterday that they had a
good case against the estate in the inter
est of the church. It looked rather queer,
he said, that a piiest on a salary of 8600 a
year could amass a fortune of #o00,000.
The rules of the Catholic pastors, it
appears, say that they shall turn in to
their archbishop all money above certain
expenditures. The suit is based on the
fact that Father Crudden neglected to
keep strictly to this rule, and that his
cash returns are not what they should
have been. The property which goes to
make up the #500,000 is in water bonds
of different cities about here, or real
estate in this city, Lynn, Ayres Citv and
other places in Massachusetts, Illinois
and other parts of the West and in Ire
land. Some of the relatives of the dead
priest were cut off with a dollar and a
small part of the real estate in Ireland,
and the executrix, Margaret Crudden,
takes all the rest.
The archbishop, it is said, found fault
with the condition of the church property
under the care of Father Cruddeu.
Many needful repairs were not made and
the whole church building was in a bad
way. The church needed enlarging to
accommodate the large and prosperous
congregation, but this was not done.
These facts being known to the arch
bishop he was displeased at the terms of
the will.
Miss Crudden Is looked upon with
much disfavor.. She was close to her
brother, the pastor, for many years,
and some time before his death
it was reported that he was not in
the full possession of his senses. He
was in feeble health for years. The case
attracts intense interest from clergy and
laity, and its solution will be eagerly
awaited.
A BOSTON HOLOCAUST.
Burning: of the New i'tigland Institute
Building at Boston, Together With Four
Hundred Street Cars—Sixteen Lives Lost
—Light of the Bodies of the Victims Ke
covered—Loss, Nearly Half a Million Dol
lars.
Boston, June 21.—The immense New
England Manufacturers and Mechanics’
Institute building, at the west end of
Huntington avenue, recently purchased
by the Metropolitan fiorse railroad, and
used as a storage and repair shop, caught
fire yesterday under the paint-shop, and
when the flames reached the shop the oil
and paint stored therein spread over a
large space and proved a speedy carrier
of the flames.
There were many men inside when the
fire broke out, and all rushed for the rear
windows. Most of them were helped
out, but while a rush was being made to
one of the windows, at which a scorched
and bleeding face was seen, the poor fel
low fell back into the seethiug torrent
and perished.
A colored man went back into the
burning house to save property and was
never seen to come out.
Chester L. Ilazletine and E. L. Farrer
could have escaped, but tried to pull out
some cars and were frightfully burned.
The building was soon in ruins.
While the two thousand spectators
were viewing the spectacle, a tradegy
was being enacted within unknown to
the throng. After the flames had been
sufficiently extinguished, search was be
gun for possible victims, and in a short
time eight dead bodies had been removed,
most of them burned beyond recognition.
Inside the building were 400 horse
cars, each worth §700, making the total
loss, with the building itself, §400,000.
The burning of the vast building was
one of the grandest sights seen in this
city since the great tire of 1872. The
building was erected in 1881 for exhibi
tion purposes. It covers an area of near
ly five acres. About a year ago it was
purchased by the railroad company.
The tire was doubtless incendiary. At
tempts to burn several other buildings of
the company have lately been made, and
the remarkable speed of the progress of
the flames is very suspicious. The com
pany has had trouble with its employes.
The following is a list of the dead and
wounded, as far as is known:
DKAD.
Patrick Lyons, blacksmith, aged twen
ty-six, who went back to get tools.
Alex. Campbell, aged thirty-five, a
woodworker, the only support of an aged
Kic* lv»r.
Oliver Prootj tv n vAntu viKvai
Wm. Taylor, aged seventy.
WOUXDKD.
John McDonald, liead and face burned.
James W. Iliduen, head and face
burned.
E. Ferran, ditto.
Henry Sturgill and Jas. Hazletipe,
badly burned about the face and arms
and head.
All of these are men who escaped, but
went back after tools. It was not fifteen
minutes after the first cry of fire before
the roof doubled up like a jack-knife,
taking in the walls with it. Everything .
is gone clear down into the cellar.
Sixteen persons are missing.
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MORE VETOES.
The President Sends a Hateh of Fifteen
Veto Messages to Congress—A Number of
Them Private Pension Hills—Two Public
ituilding Seliemes Knoeked Out.
Washington, June 22.—The President
yesterday sent to Congress fifteen veto
messages. Of these, six were addressed
to the Senate and nine to the House. All
but two of the vetoes referred to pen
sions. The two exceptions were bills
providing for the erection of public build
ings at Zanesville, 0., and Sioux City,
la. In his message vetoing the bill grant
ing a pension to Elizabeth 8. De
crofft, the President says that a
large number of pension bills have
never been submitted to a majority of
either branch of Congress, but are the
result of nominal sessions held for the
express purpose of their consideration
and attended by a small minority of
members of the respective houses of the
legislative branch of the government.
Thus, while the President has deemed it
his duty to disapprove many of the bills
presented, he has hardly regarded his
action as a dissent from the conclusions
of the |>eople’s representatives.
In the President’s message, vetoing
the Senate bill to provide forthe erection
of a public building at Zanesville, 0., the
President says that no Federal courts are
held at Zanesville, and there are no Gov
ernment officers located there who should
be provided for at the public expense, ex
cept the postmaster. So far as the Pres
ident is informed the patrons of the
post-office are fairly well accommodated
in a building which is rented by the Gov
ernment at the rate of 6800 per annum.
The President has no doubt the Govern
ment can he well accommodated to con
tmne in all its business relations with
the people of Zanesville by renting quar
ters at less expense than the annual tax
of.maintaining the proposed new building
after its completion
In his veto of the Senate bill for a pub
lic building at. Sioux City, Iowa, the
President finds upon examination that
United States courts are sometimes held
at Sioux Citv, but that they have been
thus far held in the County Court house
without serious inconvenience and with
out any expense to the government.
There are actually no other federal offi
cers there for whom the government, In
the President’s view, should provide ac
commodations, except the postmaster.
The post-office is now located In a building
tented bv the government until the first
day of January, 1680, at the rate of 62,200
per annum. In the President’s judgment
the number of public buildings should not
at this time be increased, unless a greater
public necessity exists therefor than if
apparent in jfhe pase of Sjoux City